GE13 - The Day of Reckoning -The aftermath.

I was watching the results being announced of the General Election along with another Malay artist friend Shaparel at my brother Lee Khai's residence. One of the intriguing fact that i observed was the fact that it took almost six hours for the counting of votes to be completed which is a very long time by any standard. Then there was the shocker results that places where the opposition were positive of winning slipped into the BN hands by very narrow margins and then the overall loss of the opposition which spell another five years of long complete denial with corruption and abuse of powers. Change is not going to happen in the near future. If here is going to be any changes it will have to happen from within BN itself.
I am thankful for the fact that the election went through withou any major riots or bloodbath which many fear might happen given the unhealthy atmosphere of the General Election. Now that BN has on the overall election it is back to the same old grind of wondering what would have been had the Opposition taken over the country. As a Malaysian I feel a loss of opportunity for the nation to do its 'Spring Claning' without any blood spilled or major disruption to the economy. I am proud that the Penang people the Malays, Chinese and Indians are able to unite in delivering yet another strong message to the rest of the country; Yes it is time for change.
Those who have plundered the wealth of the nation over the decades rule by BN can yet again take a sigh of relief as they are safe from being prosecuted if the opposition had won. The amount of money spent by the BN election campaign machinery's must be phenomenal the least to say and one don't have to look deeper than the amount of flags and buntings distributed for the purpose of a psychological impact and not to mention the free bees in terms of T-Shirts and caps, the dinners and lucky draws that were included in some areas. Perhaps this is normal in times of campaigning in order to win the people's mindset especially those who live in the rural areas and are less exposed to the social changes happening in the more urban areas.
It is no doubt that the opposition felt cheated by the final outcome and is up in arms to prove this as the opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim has vowed to make it his political. 'jihad'. But life goes on as far as the Rakyat or people are concern and the winner takes the cake, yet again and the looser has to live and fight another day. The people have woken up at least a great percentage are snapped into consciousness by the the so called " Chinese Tsunami" as coined by the incumbent Prime Minister, Najib Tun Razak. The Malays at least are shaken for better or worse, awaken from their slumber in their comfort zones of practically living in denial and exploitation and corruption as pointed out by the former PM Tun Mahathir, "The Malays are Greedy!" It is something anathema to their religious belief in Islam. But greed comes in all kinds of guises and shades which we every so often fail to recognize until it has become like and addiction. The greed for wealth, fame and power, the greed for control over others the greed of not being able to share what is excess and the wanting for more. As there are billions of stars in the skies more than enough to go around for the whole planet's population if each and every man women and child were to be given one each, we will still not be satisfied and would try to own more, grasping, clinging and clambering for more.
It is time to move on regardless as far as I am concern as the country needs to lick its wounds from the political skirmishes, it is time to take very close count of what needs to be done to rectify and reconcile, to tend to the continuation of Nation building. It is time to not regress and it is time to lay down all the political rhetoric's and concentrate on the the formation of a Transparent and Effective Governance as what the people ask for when they casted the ballots.
I hope it wil not become another long battle of Egos as Anwar Ibrahim and Najib Tun Razak manage the nation into the future, I hope a truce be made for the sake of the nation and the smooth run of the country be made a priority. I hope the likes of Tun Mahathir and Dato Nik Aziz of Kelantan will bow out graciously and let the newly formed cabinet of ministers do their job. I hope that all petty grievances related to the errors made human or otherwise be overlooked by all and sacrifices be made towards not adding to the already volatile situation we have braved through; otherwise it will all come to nothing. Patience is a virtue still highly admired by all religions and beleif systems. Change will occur if within your hearts you have felt the change; you cannot change the world without chnaging yourself first.